Gladwell 10000 Hours Quotes

#1. My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Laura Mvula

#2. A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Jonathan Sacks

#3. Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Jim Harrison

#4. What do we plant when we plant a tree?
A thousand things that we daily see,
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country's flag;
We plant the shade from the hot sun free,
We plant all these when we plant the tree.

Henry Abbey

#5. A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. Teach us, Master, how to give
All we have and are to Thee;
Grant us, Saviour, while we live,
Wholly, only Thine to be.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#7. I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

Emma Forrest

#8. First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

Michael Walzer

#9. It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

Steve Martin

#10. People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.

River Phoenix

#11. Lady, when I met you I must have run through a puddle of luck

Poppet

#12. The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Jonas Salk

#13. I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Uri Geller